Hero SAS sniper saves father and eight-year-old son from being beheaded by ISIS maniac

originally posted by: CX
...getting hit with a .50 doesn't mean "body gone" every time. One lad back in N. Ireland was clipped through the hemet and it grazed his head.
Lucky, but it happened. A mate of mine was shot with one, the round went straight through and put a hole in the wall behind him. No "body gone". There
was enough of him to be given first aid. Thats not to say a .50cal can't be devestating at times though too.

Hey, Charlie Beckwith got hit with a 50 cal in the gut and lived to tell the tale.

originally posted by: CX
...getting hit with a .50 doesn't mean "body gone" every time. One lad back in N. Ireland was clipped through the hemet and it grazed his head.
Lucky, but it happened. A mate of mine was shot with one, the round went straight through and put a hole in the wall behind him. No "body gone". There
was enough of him to be given first aid. Thats not to say a .50cal can't be devestating at times though too.

Hey, Charlie Beckwith got hit with a 50 cal in the gut and lived to tell the tale.

Thought you said "Nut" there for a moment...I would have preferred instant death.

Alright I'm fine with acknowledging western meddling and such, and having a serious conversation about a solution. But can't we just celebrate a good
shot saving some poor folks from getting their heads cut off in a random desert? # man sometimes a good kill is just a good kill and not some sinister
plot to take over the world.

originally posted by: hutch622
All this he would not aim at the head crap , does it sday he aimed at the head , perhaps it was centre mass and he missed by a foot or so . And for
the doubters , tonight the odds of winning lotto are about 1 in 58million , guess what , someone will eventually win it . 3 shots from 3 by trained
special forces , plausible . More than plausible .

And I can tell you now for a fact that no shot would be taken in to a crowd of civvies and enemy combatants. Especially not with a calibre of bullet
that would happily blow someone's body to bits, go through a brick wall and still do the same to someone on the other side of it. Even at 1000m. It
isn't how British soldiers operate. Or I suppose they just happened to have perfect backstop in place for each of the three targets who were kind
enough to move away from the civilian crowd?

Haha, despite the fact this is more evidence of unsanctioned British meddling in the M.E., I would suggest it's the least they can do seeing as their
masters created the ISIS mess in the first place.

For every 2 that have been saved, there's thousands who weren't so lucky or at least, thousands who wouldn't have needed saved but for the sheer
incompetency & greed of western powers.

Unsanctioned?

We are at war! ISIS declared war on us!

The tories are operating the military in Syria without even asking parliament, it's unsanctioned.

So what..!?!

I don't care and I don't think anyone else dose either.

If you want to be all "politically correct", and do things by the book or stay out of it all together while thousands of people are murdered every
day, that's fine. But you're a minority in your beliefs, so give it a rest.

And while we are on the subject how were those training deaths the result of poor judgement by the DS? Those men ran themselves to death trying to win
a part in something they believed in. There is no disgrace in men having so much determination that they will die before they give in to mental and
physical fatigue. That is not in any way the fault of any regiment or rank.

Likely they were just out on a recon patrol painting targets for air strikes. Stumbled across a village with a a couple of ISIS tards left at the back
being pampered kids from Europe and no use at the front so left to terrorize the neighborhood and the SAS team just took them out at likely less than
half the claimed range and then moved on.

The press just doubled the range, added a father and soon on the brink of death and added some spin.

originally posted by: sg1642
And while we are on the subject how were those training deaths the result of poor judgement by the DS? Those men ran themselves to death trying to win
a part in something they believed in. There is no disgrace in men having so much determination that they will die before they give in to mental and
physical fatigue. That is not in any way the fault of any regiment or rank.

Yeah they could have quite easily thrown in the towel and got evaced back to base. They are not forced marched.

Not to mention the sources 'silencers'- they are not silencers, they are suppressors. Suppressors muzzle the retort but do not eliminate it
completely, however from that range a suppressed weapon might not be heard but the ricochet of a missed shot might be, hence the steady hand and the
patience of a sniper.

But still even one hit from that distance would be a feat, let alone three in quick succession.

From Wiki... In November 2009, Harrison consecutively struck two Taliban machine gunners south of Musa Qala in Helmand Province in Afghanistan at a
range of 2,475 m (2,707 yd) using a L115A3 Long Range Rifle.[4][5][6][7][8] In a BBC interview, Harrison reported it took about nine shots for him
and his spotter to initially range the target successfully. Then, he reported, his first shot "on target" was a killing shot followed
consecutively by a kill shot on a second machine gunner then a third which disabled the machine gun.[9]

In the reports, Harrison mentions the environmental conditions were perfect for long range shooting: no wind, mild weather and clear visibility

Do you realise what a figure eleven looks like at that range? Even through a 338? Never mind two men lying on their belt buckle. To take out two men
and their weapon at that range is talent. Ranging shots or not, he holds the record for the longest confirmed kill in history.

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